Paco Lagerstrom
Paco Axel Lagerstrom | |
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| Born | February 24, 1914 |
| Died | February 16, 1989 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | Stockholm University Princeton University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Asymptotic expansion Fluid mechanics |
| Institutions | Caltech |
| Thesis | Measure and Integral in Partially Ordered Spaces (1942) |
| Doctoral advisor | Salomon Bochner |
| Doctoral students | Julian Cole Athanassios S. Fokas Milton Van Dyke Saul Kaplun Stephen Childress |
Paco Axel Lagerstrom (February 24, 1914 – February 16, 1989) was a Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer. He was trained formally in mathematics, but worked for much of his career in aeronautical applications. He was known for work in applying the method of asymptotic expansion to fluid mechanics problems. Several of his works have become classics, including "Matched Asymptotic Expansions: Ideas And Techniques".